Susan C. Herring

List of John Benjamins publications for which Susan C. Herring plays a role.

Journal

Titles

Media and Language Change

Edited by Susan C. Herring

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 4:1 (2003) iv, 159 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

Textual Parameters in Older Languages

Edited by Susan C. Herring, Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 195] 2000. x, 448 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Herring, Susan C. and Jing Ge-Stadnyk 2024 Emoji and illocutionarity: Acting on, and acting as, languageStructures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions, Gill, Martin, Aino Malmivirta and Brita Wårvik (eds.), pp. 124–155 | Chapter
Emoji can modify a textual utterance, constitute a stand-alone speech act, or virtually perform an action. These three broad types of pragmatic function are usually treated separately in the literature when they are treated at all. We classify these functions in a systematic, unified manner by… read more
Dainas, Ashley R. and Susan C. Herring 2021 Chapter 4. Interpreting emoji pragmaticsApproaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice, Xie, Chaoqun, Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland (eds.), pp. 107–144 | Chapter
This chapter describes the methods and the overall findings of the Understanding Emoji Survey, which we administered online in early 2018 to determine how social media users interpret the pragmatic functions of popular emoji types in the discourse context of comments posted to public Facebook… read more
Herring, Susan C. 2003 Media and Language Change: IntroductionMedia and Language Change, Herring, Susan C. (ed.), pp. 1–17 | Article
Herring, Susan C. 2003 Review of Baron (2000): Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It’s HeadingMedia and Language Change, Herring, Susan C. (ed.), pp. 153–158 | Review
Herring, Susan C. 2000 Poeticality and Word Order in Old TamilTextual Parameters in Older Languages, Herring, Susan C., Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. 197–236 | Article
Herring, Susan C., Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler 2000 On Textual Parameters and Older LanguagesTextual Parameters in Older Languages, Herring, Susan C., Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. 1–32 | Article
Herring, Susan C. and John C. Paolillo 1995 Focus position in SOV languagesWord Order in Discourse, Downing, Pamela A. and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 163–198 | Article
This article addresses the question of whether tense markers in Modern Tamil were historically aspectual in function, as Zvelebil (1962) has claimed. The methodological approach employed is that developed by Hopper (1979a, 1979b, 1982) for the analysis of foreground and background in narrative… read more
Herring, Susan C. 1991 The grammaticallization of rhetorical questions in TamilApproaches to Grammaticalization: Volume I. Theoretical and methodological issues, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Bernd Heine (eds.), pp. 253–284 | Article